Show THE POOR IN ST ST. PETERSBURG Most of tho ho dispatches from the capital cap cap- ital tal of or Russia deal with political l con ms Now and then an outbreak reveals the blood bloody and pitiless reign of or ignorant terrorism But occasionally occasion occasion- ally all there thero comes a a. bit of news which lifts th the curtain to the tho domestic si side e of life Dispatches received within the past st few days tell us that within one ono day sixteen mothers abandoned their babes Tho The little ones were found alive all in various parts of St. St Peters Peters- burg burs Always as the clothing Indicates respectability not not destitution In another an an- other four t twenty four hours bours the tho bodies of fourteen unknown children were fished from the rivers and canals Twenty boys from eighteen to twenty ye years rs of r age ago have haye left the city schools and are missing Nearl Nearly as many girls also from school have disappeared disappeared In the same time The I police OlIce affect to believe these young people have havo gone o to join re revolutionists revolutionists- I somewhere The destination Is not even e suggested u What h t a black condition it reveals There Is absolute hopelessness ex- ex pressed messed In that abandonment of babies ba baa babies bies and a r reckless facing of desperate desperate des des- fat fate in ID the vanishing of ot those oung young people from school In our happier country countr we can cnn have e small realization of or the tho horrors express expressed ex ex- press pressed d In tn life at the Russian capital Am American rican citizens can only hope that the he star tar o of a n better era ma may soon rise for or those in the czars czar's domains t I Tenants of or the poorer classes In New ew York havo have Inaugurated a strike for or lower rents rents They are ore fighting the most rapacious an and heartless men Inthe in inthe the he world Until recently there seemed no hope of getting a fair reduction reduction re reo re- re in rates but it II is now flOW suggested suggested sug sost d' d that the they enjoin the collection of rents where th the sanitary and build build- ns 1 lawa of r t tI tho city bavo a not t u I complied with Aud Rh ith that weapon the they are Cl likely not only to get their theil I rents reduced reduce 1 but get a a. better type of I place in which to live I I A railroad man lUan fort forty years ears of or age who had on only recently learned to lo play Ja poker sat in a game at Cleveland Cle Ohio the other night anti and caught four aces There was only three dollars Inthe in inthe intile the tile pot JOt and he lie fell dead lead There tire are I four fourer er Very ery improbable factors in this story stor- an and the falling dead part isn't I one of or them I. I I II Jit A I Iwaya w. w g ni I r i n li j jlII lII n I the Tribune accounts for Cor the mistakes of or American party part officials b by ag asserting assert aszert- I crl-I ing that some one Is trying to bring discredit it on the American party The II defense has been repeated so often itIs it itIs Is beginning to smell badly I Elbert Hubbard calls C C. C C. Goo Goodwin a wiggling juggling sh in the Philistine and the Weekly reedy is provoked to reply rell in a thousand words Three hundred words in the Weekly to one In iii the Philistine about expresses relative relative rela rela- tive ti value The only thing we are afraid of is that Chancellor Da Day will think he made the President repeat repent the declaration declaration declara declara- tion that he would not again be a can can- Beyond that we dont don't care what tho the chancellor wrote Why not make the tramps sweep the snow from the streets streets and give the wages to resident worl workmen men the same as now That would punish the tramps without r the tile residents John W. W Gates and aud Dick Canfield tho the former gambling king Icing are to be partners in Texas oil Poor Dick |